Graham: Reid's 'lying' about Romney's taxes

Sen. Lindsey Graham ripped Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Sunday, accusing him of “lying” about his claims that Mitt Romney didn’t pay income taxes for an entire decade.

“I've been around this town for a while. I actually like Harry,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “But what he did on the floor of the Senate is so out of bounds. I think he's lying about his statement of knowing something about Romney.”

Last week, Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in an interview that an anonymous Bain investor told him the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had not paid taxes for 10 years and urged him to release more of his tax returns. Reid repeated the claim on a conference call with reporters and on the Senate floor.

When Graham made his initial assertion, CNN host Candy Crowley attempted to confirm ("You think the leader of the Senate is lying?") that he had called Reid a liar. Graham said he had.

“I think he's making things up," Graham said. “Let's start talking about the real issues that matter to real people and I just can't let that pass. I just cannot believe that the majority leader of the United States Senate would take the floor twice, make accusations that are absolutely unfounded, in my view, and quite frankly making things up to divert the camp campaign away from the real issues.”